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Blame Maddie stomped and banged, making her displeasure as clear as she could as she wielded her broom, dust motes swarming around her. It wasn't fair! None of it was her fault. Not really. She couldn't have known what would happen. And besides, things probably wouldn't have been any different even if the ladder hadn't been there. All that damned girl had had to do was... Continue Reading →

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This post is for Cee's Fun Foto Challenge. This week Cee is asking us to share a picture or two that we think the viewer might not be able to recognise. Here are my two pictures: Can anyone guess what they are? Leave your answers in the comments.

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This post is for Cee's Fun Foto Challenge. This week's theme is Things that are Cold. I have to admit that I got a little muddled this week. I had it in my head that 'things that are cold' was the theme for the Black and White Challenge. I dug out a selection of cold pictures from my... Continue Reading →

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This post is for Cee's Fun Foto Challenge. This week's theme is red flowers and so I decided to revisit a few of the flower photographs that I've taken over the last year or so. The poppy pictures were the main things to catch my attention as I wandered through my archives but I also found a few red... Continue Reading →

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Finale As the year draws to an end, exploding in an exuberant display of vibrant reds and golds; as the day fades towards night, bathing the world in a gentle glow, the beasts stand in line with no awareness of their fate. This is my entry into Cee's Fun Foto Challenge. I've never taken part with this one... Continue Reading →

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#fromthebottomup: The Rooter

Are you considering heading out and about, or looking for ideas and inspiration for events and projects to take part in over the next few weeks? Here’s our monthly roundup of eco-themed events, large and small, local, national, and global, taking place in August 2018. Don’t forget to let us know how you marked a […]

For a long time farming has been a wasteful, polluting necessity. We’ve needed to grow crops, but the technology available has led to an unsustainable level of environmental damage. Small Robot Company aims to change this. They’re developing a trio of farmbots that could revolutionise the way in which technology is used in food production. Their robots are so […]

Carnaby Street has been renamed and transformed into a pollinators paradise for Defra’s third annual Bees’ Needs Week. From Monday 9 until Friday 13th July you can pay a visit to ‘Carnabee Street’ and discover what can and is being done to help our pollinators. This year Defra has partnered with Carnaby London, the leading West End shopping […]

Growing up in Nottinghamshire’s Trent Valley, pit lakes have always been a part of our lives. Our brothers learned to fish in the Farndon Pits, always hoping to catch the elusive Mobi Pike. Fishing was never my favourite pastime, instead I preferred to spend my time exploring the paths around the area and enjoying the nature to be found. In […]

Children from St. Alban’s C of E Primary School in Havant have been inspiring fellow pupils, parents, teachers and members of their local community to sign up to their ‘Pollinator Promise’, asking people to put aside a one metre square plot solely to grow plants which feed and provide shelter for bees and other vital […]

Are you considering heading out and about, or looking for ideas and inspiration for events and projects to take part in over the next few weeks? Here’s our monthly roundup of eco-themed events, large and small, local, national, and global, taking place in July 2018. Don’t forget to let us know how you marked a […]